These are hard times. Times when it feels like we are forced to choose sides. Times when race matters and I wish it didn’t.
Sometimes Coates’ words seem too bleak, yet this week his words sound like prophesy to black Americans. This week, George Floyd is every black person in America who has died under a whip, lynched from a tree, or perished in a building set on fire by racists in white hoods. History hangs so heavy in our world – on the streets of America, across the Middle East. It hangs heavy in the borderlands of Europe and behind the wall of China.
How I wish we did not have to choose sides. How I wish we could slip the yoke of history. How I wish this was not about race.But this week, it is hard to not see race when race is all we see. When people who have been branded by race seek the solidarity of race.Yet the violence can blind us to those people black and white marching together peacefully, those who still cling to what the greatest American president, Abraham Lincoln, called the better angels of our nature.
750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War of America that resulted in abolishing slavery . 180,000 were Afro American, 570,000 were White soldiers.
We’ve killed so many aborigines and yet we believe we r the expert to comment on other countries human rights like our history is perfect. We’ve got so much racism in this country it is entrenched in our daily lives. We need to get off our high horses
Stan’s tan grows simultaneously with virtue signalling!
Nothing like fanning the flames
To those who are making racist remarks here - could you please share what satisfaction you derive from posting your ignorance and hatred? Are you angry and hurting for some reason? Do you seek to degrade another human being and hurt them to have company in your own pain?
So why in God’s name did Stan Grant seriously consider running for Reid as the Liberal candidate. A party that has fought tooth and nail to defeat Land Rights and refused to say sorry to the stolen generation.
Ok Stan...there is so much systematic racism that no Aboriginal person could ever amount to anything...it's like an Aboriginal could ever be in the media.
Hey Stan you might want to see what the USA did to their indigenous people, haven’t seen you complaining about that.
When I look at the US, I see protests that have killed more black people and not by the hand of Police action but let’s just gloss over that as ‘criminality’ and maintain a ‘systemic racism’ narrative as this will correct any injustice perpetuated by society.
riots
China see it too. What a coincidence.
Get with Jesus Christ Stan, and your racism is finished. Get with the good indigenous Christians across this great nation. Get with reconciliation. Christ Jesus died for the sin of the whole world. No more racism
Stop. Stop using the States situation (which you obviously know nothing about) to garner your own spotlight. Get on with positively lifting our nation, not dragging it down.
Is that the white Stan Grant or the black Stan Grant?
The continual inciting. Culpable.
They came here as slaves?
Which Stan Grant?
They don't want us to protest police brutality on: Saturday 6 June 3pm to 5pm Sydney Town Hall 'No Justice. No Peace. No Racist, Police.' blacklivesmatteraustralia BlackLivesMatter
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